Linguistics 580
General Phonetics
Xhosa
Xhosa is a Niger-Kordofanian language (Bantu branch, South-Eastern Zone) spoken by approximately 6 million people in South Africa.
Xhosa has 15 click phonemes. Each of the there click types -- dental, alveopalatal, and alveolar lateral -- may occur with one of five distinctive accompaniments, as summarized in the following table:
Please transcribe the following Xhosa words. You may ignore tone.
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